I guess that my first love has always been music. I've been playing the
trumpet since I was nine years old. I remember my mother asking me one day,
when I was a teenager, what I wanted to do when I grew up. I replied that I
wanted to play the trumpet. "Robert", she said (she always called me Robert)
"you'll have to choose one or the other, because you can't do both."
Well, I guess that she was right, because I'm still playing the trumpet,
and (according to most of my friends) I've never grown up.